Greg’s Reviews > Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined > Status Update

There are those (Robert Graves among them) who have suggested Thersites is usually portrayed as ugly and deformed because he has the guts to speak truth to power…It is the powerful who write (or commission) history, of course.

...to the Greeks and Trojans those dead bodies were living symbols of the imperishable reputation of the heroic souls that inhabited them. As much as their companions fought to rescue, reclaim, and honor the bodies of their fallen friends, their foes would fight to keep, mutilate, and defile them, and to take their armor as a prize of war or as treasure to be ransomed from the fallen’s family and friends.